50 Happiness Quotes When You Need More Joy and Love In Life

We all have times when we can use some amazing quotes about happiness in our lives.

A day that we are a little gloomy and down. A time when we just need a positive thought to life us out of the fog. Here is a list of 50 quotes about happiness for you to use when you need a little injection of happiness. Keep them somewhere that you can see them easily and keep them accessible.

Best Happiness Quotes About Life and Love

1.) “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’ If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”Chinese Proverb

2.)“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”L.M. Montgomery

16.) “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”James M. Barrie

17.) “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”Stacey Charter

Quotes on happiness and our choices

18.) “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”Buddha

19.) “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”Martha Washington

20.) “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”Confucius

21.) “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”Dalai Lama

22.) “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”James Oppenheim

Quotes on being happy, right here and right now

23.) “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”Winnie the Pooh

24.) “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”Heraclitus

25.) “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”Robert A. Heinlein

26.) “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”Marthe Troly-Curtin

27.) “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”Franklin D. Roosevelt

28.) “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”Aesop

29.) “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”Dale Carnegie

Be Happy quotes that make pain less distracting

30.) “We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”Dalai Lama

31.) “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”Rose Lane

33.) “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”Unknown

34.) “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”Frederick Keonig

Happy life quotes about not blaming others for our problems

35.) “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”Albert Ellis

36.) “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”Seneca

37.) “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”Joseph Addison

38.) “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”Groucho Marx

39.) “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

44.) “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”Epictetus

45.) “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”Maxim Gorky

46.) “Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”Buddha

47.) “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”Marcel Pagnol

More happiness quotes

48.) “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”William Feather

49.) “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”Albert Camus

50.) “To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”Mary Stuart

Which happiness quotes were your favorite? What other quotes about happiness would you add to the list?

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Rose

October 25, 2018 at 1:01 pm

Amazed at the happiness waves and sparks felt here. Sharing happiness with a special soul that identifies with, embraces & promotes the love of life and positive advocacy is the greatest gift. The elixer of a lifetime for the pair fortunate to have discovered, nourished, and sustain shared cosmos so rare.